vtr heads

1. miss_murder Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 oxford Posts: 328 cleaned Mk2 saxo vtr

   #1 20th December 2007, 14:41

   whats the best thing to do to the head e.g. ported polished bigger valves and which company will do it cheers. The car is a mk2 vtr
2. Quick Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2003 United Kingdom (England) Posts: 7064

   #2 20th December 2007, 14:57

   Whats your current spec?
3. miss_murder Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 oxford Posts: 328 cleaned Mk2 saxo vtr

   #3 20th December 2007, 15:12

   There is none i got a full supersprint exhaust system and some competion induction kit my dads m8 got me from citroen and thats it
4. VtsTom Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Oct 2007 Spalding-ish Posts: 2512 Mk4 Anniversary golf. 106 Quiksallye

   #4 20th December 2007, 15:28

   Decent head jobs (oh er) go for alot. I.e £500+.
   
   The 8v does respond very well to a profesional job, well worth the cash if your planning on running throttle bodies, lairy cam and high comp pistons.
   
   GMC Motorsport, Longmans, QEP and HiflowHeads all do them.
5. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

   #5 20th December 2007, 19:21

   I would recommend GMC and Longman. I hear good things about QEP but never had any work done by them. There are a few others I would recommend but you are talking big cash and they dont deal with the public. My last head was a bit over £1500 but it was something a little special.
6. Dasher_VTR Frequent Poster Joined: Aug 2007 Swanley,Kent Posts: 866 saxo vtr

   #6 20th December 2007, 19:23

   i'm porting and polishing mine myself halfrauds(halfords) sell the grinding bit for a drill to do it just takes patience.
7. Quick Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2003 United Kingdom (England) Posts: 7064

   #7 20th December 2007, 20:27

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Dasher_VTR i'm porting and polishing mine myself halfrauds(halfords) sell the grinding bit for a drill to do it just takes patience.

   I wouldna't recommed a DIY head job!
8. smearsvtr Established Member Joined: May 2007 My House in Burton on trent near derby Posts: 1025 Saxo 1.1 96 Saxo VTR 2000

   #8 20th December 2007, 20:31

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Quick I wouldna't recommed a DIY head job!

   neither would i it needs to be done by someone who knows what there doing and who has a flow bench to test it
9. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

   #9 20th December 2007, 21:02

   I would also not recommend porting them your self. Even more so on the 8V engines. These are odd engines and even by following a good book on porting you can go very wrong. Not to mention that its actually hard to uses porting tooling.
10. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

    #10 20th December 2007, 21:04

    PS forgot to say a good head is not just the port shape but there is a lot more to it than that. I have a feeling halfords don’t sell most of the equipment to do a proper job.